Arabic-L:PEDA:Adult Literacy Response

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1) Subject: Adult Literacy Response

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Date: 24 May 2001
From: aziz abbassi <moustique51 at hotmail.com>
Subject: Adult Literacy Response

On  the Adult Literacy Program for Arabic and with particular
reference to Morocco, there are indeed several projects in place at
this time. The local educational authorities ('Delegations' of the
Ministry of Education) together with municipalities or rural
'Communes' run both day and evening literacy programs attended mostly
by young women (early school drop-outs, teenage wives who never made
it to school, etc.). I saw the primers they are using, they seem to
focus on 2 areas: (1)practical & functional language and (2)
religious contexts (for those who never received Koranic school
instruction. The field (development) inquirer should also find out
about a recent
policy that will allow these local school districts to implement the
literacy process through either Berber or 'any other local dialect'.

I hope this is useful.

Aziz Abbassi
Author, Translator
(International Education Management Service)
PO BOX 6030
Monterey, CA 93944
(831) 375-5969

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